Internet News Portal Liable For The Offensive Online Comments
The case began when , one of Estonia’s largest news portals, published an article about a ferry company. The article itself was neutral, but it sparked a wave of highly offensive, threatening, and defamatory comments from readers directed at the ferry company's owner.
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The court moved the needle from reactive moderation (waiting for a report) to proactive monitoring for professional publishers.
While Delfi had a "notice-and-take-down" system in place, the Estonian courts—and eventually the ECHR—ruled that the portal should have done more. Because Delfi was a professional, commercially run news site, the court argued it should have anticipated and prevented such "manifestly unlawful" speech before it was even reported. Why "126635" Matters Today
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